He keeps it in your pants pocket.Rodimus Knight wrote:So where does he keep that blaster in beast mode?
Nope. That's another retooling.MeGrimlock78 wrote:Do the front beast feet pull out like that on the original?
I don't remember my Black Big Convoy doing that...
Ah, so I won't be buying the exact same mold yet again just to get these new accessories. I can live with that.Sabrblade wrote:Nope. That's another retooling.MeGrimlock78 wrote:Do the front beast feet pull out like that on the original?
I don't remember my Black Big Convoy doing that...
Dunno about Big Convoy getting a MP, as the Encore and this other reissue were both done to celebrate 20th anniversary of Beast Wars Neo, while Lio Convoy's MP is part of the whole brand's 35th anniversary.Bumblevivisector wrote:Ah, so I won't be buying the exact same mold yet again just to get these new accessories. I can live with that.Sabrblade wrote:Nope. That's another retooling.MeGrimlock78 wrote:Do the front beast feet pull out like that on the original?
I don't remember my Black Big Convoy doing that...
Think Takara's trying to get the total number of Big Convoy reissues up to Lio Convoy's number of repaints before he gets a Masterpiece toy too?
Bucky wrote:Noticed that this guy is up for preorder on TFSource, so I made sure to order one. I love that Big Convoy mold, so he’s kind of a must have for me.
-The Matrix Buster can work with any version of the Big Convoy mold
-The Matrix itself is newly molded to collapse and fit into the Buster, just like the cartoon
-Takara was trying to have this accessory package ready for the original Encore release, but they didn't make it in time
-Takara tried their hardest to align the toys molding with what was in the cartoon
-The Matrix Buster package wasn't given to the Anime release because it would have been possibly too costly to market, so the Anime colors were prioritized
-Big Blue Convoy was released to help offset the cost of updating the molding as well
-The popularity of Big Blue and Anime Convoy helped the team raise the funds to release this new Matrix Buster version
-The Matrix Buster was originally intended to be released in 1999 during the cartoon, during which Big Convoy would have had the Matrix Buster attached to his "prosthetic" left arm (in the cartoon). With the scrapping of the Unicron toy, the cartoon was altered and the Matrix Buster never made it out
Sabrblade wrote:It also says that the anime-colored Encore was released to align with the Beast Wars Masterpieces, which to me makes it sound like a substitute for an actual MP Big Convoy, as though it was released because of there being no plans for a MP Big Convoy.
Having further asked about this elsewhere, it seems that they wanted to get the anime-colored one out this year in time for the Beast Wars Neo 20th anniversary, and that its release was done in lieu of an actual MP because A) any plans for an actual MP would have taken too long for it to see release in time for the anniversary year, and B) the original toy was basically already close enough to matching the animation model almost perfectly in sculpt and detail (it just needed the cartoon colors to be completely spot on).D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It also says that the anime-colored Encore was released to align with the Beast Wars Masterpieces, which to me makes it sound like a substitute for an actual MP Big Convoy, as though it was released because of there being no plans for a MP Big Convoy.
That's a bummer, though if they had wanted to, they could have held off on the Anime one to coincide with the Lio Convoy
Ironhidensh wrote:Can you switch Takara-Tomy mall to an English version? Like with Amazon.jp?
